New Tutorial: PDF Snapshot Tool

There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: Copy Part of a PDF File. It explains how to use the Snapshot Tool to copy and print specific images from a PDF file. It’s for anyone who would rather work with the PDF versions of the files rather than the individual PNG images.

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How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers

There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers. It explains how to attach multi-layer, three-dimensional cardstock flowers and leaves to wire stems. The directions include a materials list, nine step-by-step photos, and complete instructions.

In the Idea Gallery, you can see a sample project using this technique: 3-D [...]

How to Ground a Digi-Stamp Image

An earlier post showed before and after versions of a sugar glider done with colored pencils. The “after” image wasn’t complete, though, because it was still floating in space. It wasn’t grounded. There are many different ways to ground an image, and the step-by-step photos below show one of the easiest, using chalks or pastels.
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Piercing and Shaping Flower Petals

A handmade enclosure card makes any gift just a little more special. For this 3″ square card, the pansy was watercolored, photocopied, scaled down, and then printed twice. On the top layer, the pansy’s petals have been pierced, trimmed, and shaped for dimension. See the how-to photos, below.

Materials for 3″ pansy gift enclosure card: Pierced [...]

Colored Pencils – Before and After

Jennifer commented yesterday that she was doing some research on how to color her Aussie Animals images. That reminded me that I hadn’t uploaded a colored version of the sugar glider yet. What a perfect opportunity to revisit a new-to-me technique, blending Prismacolor pencils with baby oil instead of Gamsol odorless mineral spirits.
There has been [...]

Print – Color – Pierce – Cut

Some of the new Angels Landing™ digital stamping images combine printed elements with piercing. The process is simple, but the order of the steps can make a difference.
1. Print. With any digital image, the obvious first step is to print it on cardstock or other paper. Select the “Best” print quality setting. When possible, [...]

Save Paper: Print Half Sheets

When you only need a few small digital images, there’s no need to print them on a full sheet of cardstock. Instead, you can cut it in half and print on smaller sheets — as long as your printer will handle that size. Notice how this project only takes a few pieces of each color?

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